Engaged Quotes - Page 23

• You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Defeat, Forget

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1768, Barbour Publishing

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• During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.

  Alice Walker

  Believe, Years, People

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• We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!

  Rumi

  Victory And Defeat, Pieces, Chess

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• Make sure your goals are dynamic, that is to say, point toward an activity that you are engaged in and through which you are connected to other human beings as well as to the whole. See yourself inspiring countless people with your work and enriching their lives. Feel yourself being an opening through which energy flows from the unmanifested Source of all life through you for the benefit of all.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Goal, Energy

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• An artist, if he's unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is official, public, or national, what everyone else feels comfortable with, so the moment he opens his mouth, an artist is engaged, because opening his mouth is always scandalous.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Artist, Passionate, Mouths

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• Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

  Freeman Patterson

  Artist, Serious Work, Matter

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• It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly believe that His almighty power is engaged for our defense and help in all of our straits and temptations.

  William Gurnall

  Believe, Temptation, Saint

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• It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.

  Peter Drucker

  Years, Up To You, May

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker (2006). “Classic Drucker: Essential Wisdom of Peter Drucker from the Pages of Harvard Business Review”, p.3, Harvard Business Press

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• Mankind is engaged in an eternal quest for that ‘something else' he hopes will bring him happiness, complete and unending.For those individual souls who have sought and found God, the search is over: He is that Something Else.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Soul, Quests, Individual

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1974). “Self-realization”

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• Through repentance the filth of our foul actions is washed away. After this, we participate in the Holy Spirit, not automatically, but according to the faith, humility and inner disposition of the repentance in which our soul is engaged. For this reason it is good to repent each day as the act of repentance is unending.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Humility, Soul

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• My sister and I never engaged in sibling rivalry. Our parents weren't that crazy about either one of us.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sister, Sibling, Crazy

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• I would say I'm humanly engaged.

  Juliette Binoche

  Engagement

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• On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

  Richard Cobden

  Country, War, Arbitration

  Richard Cobden (1850). “Speeches on Peace, Financial Reform, Colonial Reform, and Other Subjects: Delivered During 1849”, p.101

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• I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.

  Gerald McRaney

  Thinking, Engagement, Levels

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• I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

  Frederick Sanger

  Engagement, Pursuit, Colleagues

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• The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Engagement, Shapes, Interest

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• But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders.

  Julius Streicher

  Engagement, Facts, Murder

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• In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

  Sallust

  Art, Names, Engagement

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• It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.

  Philip Gibbs

  War, Victory, Battle

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• The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.

  Billy Bragg

  Artist, Thinking, Important

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• Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

  Michael Chabon

  Writing, Finding Yourself, Mind

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• I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

  James McGreevey

  Men, Adults, Affair

  Resignation Address, delivered 12 August 2004

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• So when we start talking about the state and all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida, we've gotten overwhelming support, and it's so exciting.

  Katherine Harris

  Florida, Talking, Support

  "Katherine Harris Discusses Her Senate Run". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. August 9, 2005.

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• I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

  Bram Fischer

  Engagement, Duty, Dangerous

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• They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

  Zebulon Pike

  Horse, Night, Spy

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Thomas Rees (1811). “Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.186

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